News Roundup: Shooter Simulator Manager

• DEFCON: Everybody Patches.  The WarGames-inspired doomsday game launches v1.3.
• Tribal Trouble is an RTS with vikings visiting tropical islands, and the natives aiming to keep their shores Norse-free.  The updated demo (v1.5) is now available.
• Dofus.  Horrible title.  Award-winning MMO.  Download it, soak in a week's worth of free gameplay, then see if $6.90/month is reasonable enough to keep this animated adventure title going.  Download the MAC, Linux, or Windows version 1.16.2 ... then immediately snag the 1.16.4 patch.  Heh?
• The Burning Crusade is nearly upon us, and this v2.0 to v2.0.3 patch gears up for the next round of WoW.

• Screens:  Penumbra: Overture (PC), Boxing Manager (PC), Medal of Honor Vanguard (PS2, Wii), Ship Simulator 2006 (PC), Samurai Warriors 2: Empires (360), and Alien Shooter Vengeance (PC).
  

• Stargate fans are in for a treat, as a new MMO, Stargate Worlds, is under development.  WarCry snags an exclusive interview with Senior Producer Dan Elggren.
• Jack Emmert, head of Cryptic Studios (City of Heroes), returns to MMORGP.com to fill in the blanks with some Q&A.
• And those same online addicts send in their first report from the CES frontlines.
• Pissed that your duo-core is already outdated?  Ready to snag that spankin' new Intel quad-core?  Well, you can start saving up for Intel's 4x4 V8 system.  Yes, it runs two quad-core processors ... bringing the total cores present in the system to eight.  (*Randy starts singing "America ... f--- yeah!")
• Atomic Gamer doesn't know what all the other sites' low grades are about.  Here's their review of Cartoon Network Racing.  (And here's the trailer if you need more visual aids.)